Paperback 496: The Jewels of Aptor / Samuel R. Delany (Sphere 28894)

Image lifted from a "Welcome to the Wonderful World of Scientology!" poster

"Let's get high and listen to the new Phallus Eruption album!"

I always thought the Washington Monument could stand to be a little ... gayer.

Best things about this back cover:

This font is killing me. That "w" is totally making out with that "e."

If there's one way I like my vivid images, it's crammed.

"Denouement," Ha ha. I haven't seen that word since high school. So Shakespearean.

Page 123~

The knot's invention was ingenious. At the vibration, two opposed loops shook away from a third, and a four millimetre length of rubber band that had been sewn in tightened and released a fourth loop from a small length of number four gauge wire with a holding tonsure of three quarters of a gram, and the opposing vibration returning up the cord loosed a similar apparatus on the other side of the plug.

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